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    Love Louder: 33 Ways to Amplify Your Life
    Love Louder: 33 Ways to Amplify Your Life
    Love Louder: 33 Ways to Amplify Your Life
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    Love Louder: 33 Ways to Amplify Your Life

    By Preston Smiles

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    Former bad boy-turned-inspirational messenger Preston Smiles shakes things up in the world of personal development, sharing a uniquely modern, love-based approach on how to live with more excitement, clarity, and confidence.

    Preston Smiles, born in Compton and raised in Los Angeles, is no stranger to a life of adventure. As a teen he joined a local gang that was first involved in petty theft but later escalated into more dangerous crimes. One night when Preston was fifteen, he was faced with a decision to take a routine ride of mischief with the friends or stay home. Intuition told him not to go. Within an hour, everyone in that car was shot. This tragic event shook him to his core and catapulted him to finding higher purpose for himself.

    Love Louder presents a positive approach for getting more love and meaning out of life. With the lessons he’s learned through the years, he distills ancient wisdom and new thought teachings into thirty-three timeless tools to living your best life and asks questions such as:

    -What do you truly believe you deserve? Are your actions reflecting that?

    -What are you a slave to? Facebook? Twitter? Alcohol? Him? Her?

    -Do you have the need to be “right” all the time?

    Love Louder can help you tackle these everyday challenges and teach you how to live with more excitement, productivity, clarity, and confidence. Full of insights and powerful anecdotes, Preston’s motivational story is a heartwarming read for anyone seeking guidance on overall happiness and fulfillment in life.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGallery Books
    Release dateJun 7, 2016
    ISBN9781501120152
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    Preston Smiles

    Preston Smiles has a large dedicated following on his YouTube channel and has been featured in LA Weekly, Los Angeles Magazine, and Origin magazine. He is also a regular contributor to Huffington Post, The Daily Love, Good Guy Swag, and has appeared on top podcasts such as Lewis Howes’s The School of Greatness and Addicted2Success. He recently won Elixir Magazine’s  Millennial Mentor Award and is also one of the youngest members of ATL (Association of Transformational Leaders), founded by Jack Canfield.

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      Love Louder - Preston Smiles

      INTRODUCTION

      Do you find yourself feeling overwhelmed and stressed out more often than you’d like to admit? Being stalked by your inner critic, the one constantly telling you you’re not good enough? Have you been waiting for your life to take off, but have no clue how to make that happen? Well, you’re not alone; in fact, many people feel the same way. We’ve gotten so caught up buying the newest gadgets, keeping up with our Facebook and Instagram accounts, and paying the bills that we’ve lost our way. If you’re ready to take your life to the next level, then you’ve found the perfect book, or the perfect book has found you. You see, I don’t believe in mistakes. I believe that when the student is ready, the teacher will appear, and that sometimes following your heart means losing your mind. It means letting go of what’s logical and moving into the unknown, or at least that which goes against what you’ve been taught.

      In Love Louder, you will learn how to radically embrace life, breaking through personal barriers and moving forward with confidence and passion. This book was written to help you get out of your own way and live the life you’re meant to live. It’s comprised of thirty-three timeless tools that have supported thousands of people in regaining their center and getting what life is all about: love. I like to think of these wisdom nuggets as guideposts or flashing lights on a dark night, leading you home . . . to you.

      You will get maximum value out of Love Louder if you stay out of a right-or-wrong, agree-or-disagree attitude and simply try things on as they pertain to your life. And don’t feel that you have to read this chronologically. Keep it with you, read a chapter, and work on that lesson for a week. Think of it as a toolbox at your disposal, to continually crack open and apply. The only thing I strongly warn against is just racing through this, trying to consume another self-help book. I challenge you to apply everything that you read to your own life and see for yourself whether these tools work.

      I wrote this book because I had to. I know firsthand what it feels like to feel lost, stressed, and overwhelmed by life. Over the last ten years I’ve been on a mission to discover and uncover what creates lasting happiness in humans. In that time, I’ve traveled all over the world immersing myself in ancient wisdom and applying it to my life.

      I learned through countless workshops, thousands of books, hundreds of flights all over the world, that no matter what the question is, LOVE is the answer. Without a shadow of a doubt, I know that when you amplify your love, you automatically amplify your life. Loving louder is about answering that inner call, no matter how weird, obscure, or off the beaten path it may seem. Each of us was made on purpose, with a purpose, and it’s our duty to get out of our own way to fulfill that which is burning in our hearts.

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      LET GO AND TAKE THE RIDE:

      THE POWER OF TRUSTING THE JOURNEY

      Trust your dreams, your heart, and the journey of life . . . even when you don’t understand it.

      Some people get so caught up in the destination that they miss that life is about the journey. They’re so focused on the finish line that they miss that the beauty is in what and who you become on the way to the destination. I’ve received so many blessings in disguise in the form of health scares, people passing away, breakups, breakdowns, and so much more; and the thing that has supported me most is trusting in the journey. There is always more than meets the eye in every situation; and when we trust and have faith that all is well, even when it doesn’t appear to be, we open ourselves up to new possibilities that we can apply in our lives.

      When we trust the journey of life, wholly and completely, we don’t need to know what is unfolding or why; we simply need to be present to the experience of it. Trusting the journey means that even if we don’t understand what’s unfolding right now, we have an unshakable belief that it’s happening because circumstances are rearranging themselves for our highest good. It means knowing that for every door that closes, a window of opportunity opens. I’ve noticed that many people get so down about the front door’s slamming in their face that they miss the open window and the back door that swung open at the same time.

      Ever since my house

      burnt down,

      I see the moon more clearly.

      —from the movie Ashes and Snow

      Sometimes it’s not until we’ve had it all taken away that we truly understand what it means to have faith. In those moments, standing metaphorically naked and vulnerable, we’re forced to surrender to what is so that we can allow the journey to unfold as it needs to. Sometimes certain people or circumstances aren’t meant for our lives, and we often don’t realize it until we look back, years later. When we trust the journey, we can rest assured that every breakdown is a catalyst for a breakthrough.

      #LOVELOUDERAFFIRMATION

      Today I am available for all the good that is happening right now, regardless of how it may appear.

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      INTENTION

      Intention is the beginning of every idea. Everything that’s happening on the planet started with an intention. Whether you plan to go to the gym, call a friend, or scratch an itch, it all starts with an intention to do so.

      The common misconception is that we can intend something and just sit back and wait for it to happen; that intention alone will bring us everything that we’ve ever wanted. Let’s be clear: intention is not wishful, airy-fairy thinking, but rather like an arrow flying toward a target when we are clear and focused.

      Loving Louder is about living a purpose-driven life, being intentional with our thoughts, words, and actions. When you live life intentionally, it’s like planting seeds in a garden and tending them. Whatever you plant and nurture will eventually grow. Intention is the planting and your thoughts, words, and actions are the nurturing. We can’t plant cherry seeds and expect an avocado tree, just as we can’t plant the seeds of fear and expect love to magically appear in our lives.

      For years I was blocking out love and restricting the good in my life because I was focusing

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